Mary Wings

(b. 1949, USA)

Come Out Comix, by Mary Wings
In 1973 Mary Wings made history by releasing Come Out Comix, the first lesbian underground comic book. Wings created the comic in reaction to a lesbian story by Trina Robbins in Wimmen's Comix #1. Wings later released 'Dyke Shorts' and 'Are Your Highs Getting You Down?' Wings then left the comics scene. She has written a number of lesbian detective novels, including 'She Came to the Castro', 'She Came by the Book', 'She Came in a Flash', and 'Divine Victim'.